Window-curtain-holding mechanism.



0. G. DQNAHOE & H. A. TAYLOR. WINDOW CURTAIN HOLDING MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2,1908.

Patented Oct. 12, 1909.

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WINDO'VV'CURTl iIhT-HOLDING MECHANISM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Get. 12, 1909.

Application filed September 2, 1908. Serial No. 451,332.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we. CONSTAN'HKIC Donavon ant Hester? A. Tarnon, botheili Zens of the United States, and residents of lilorris, Illinois,hare invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable WindowCurtain Fielding ldechanisnn of which the following a full and correctspecification, reference being had to the hereto accompanying; sheetout"drawings forming a part hereof, and in which- Figure 1 shows on;said construction in top plan View, the window frame being out by a.horizontal plane below the top of the window-frame showing the sashbelow it, and the wall in section on each vertical sashedge. Fig. 2shows the two window-sash and a fragment of the wall beyond, the nearpart of the wall being removed. liig. shows a detail oi a part of ourmechanism.

Like reference letters denote like parts throughout.

Our object is to construct a curtain-holding mechanism in which theupper sash car-- ries the curtaiii-supporting mechani. n, that thecurtain may be adjustable to and trom the plane of the sash as well asin the three tion of its axis, and both upward and downward. To attainsaid desirable ends we construct our said new device in, substantiallythe following manner, namely:

At the top of the upper and outer or rearsash we attach a pair oftubular posts 0 which reach inward beyond the inner sash 7), and beyondthe windowazasing. Said posts are provided with bases 1: which screwedto the sash a, as shown, and into said hollow posts are passedadjustable right-angled arms which point horizontally and from eachother butwhich may also point toward each other, or both may point inthe same direction thus giving great latitude in placing a curtain, andon said horizontal parts of said arms are placed short sleeves c whereofone is provided with an arm c and the other with an arm 0 the former toreceive the roumlcd end of a ClllflilllklOllOl axle and the other a rmto receive the flattened end or marrotatable end of a curtain-rolleraxle. .The arm is provided with opposit'enotchcs r" For the purpose ofsupplying anoteh for any position of the many in which said parts may beplaced. Set-screws on the posts r; and sleeves e hind the parts to theirrespectively ad jusl'ed places. lhe right angled arms d are square incross-section and the hollows of the parts 0 and 0 correspond therewithbecause the structure is then more easily operated than if said partswere round, but the results aimed at by us would be identical in eithercase. 'The curtainroller 5 curtain l1. and axle-ends f and f are all ofa familiar variety.

5y means of our said construction the curtain roller may be lowered downto the top oi the sash Z) and ventilation obtained in that way wl'ierebythe curtain is out of the way oi the wind and so saved from its injurythereby.

lVhat we claim is:

The combination with a window-sash provided with hollow studs, ofright-angled arms in said studs, said arms, reversible to oppositedirections, in the same horizontal plane, adjustable sleeves on saidarms, said sleeves adjustable parallel to the plane of the sash andcurtain-roller holding mechanon said sleeves.

lONEVANTINE G. DONAHO-E.

HENRY A. TAYLOR.

ll itnesses HAMILL A. CANAnAYfi LUELLA M. CARLSON.

